Asthma

September/October 2015 Issue
ICD-10: Major Differences for Five Common Diagnoses [Feature]

Test your knowledge of ICD-10 coding and documentation requirements for five diagnoses you're likely to encounter in family medicine.

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November/December 2014 Issue
Coding Common Respiratory Problems in ICD-10 [Feature]

Once you understand a few peculiarities, you'll be ready to code common diseases of the respiratory system.

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January/February 2010 Issue
Tools and Strategies for Improving Asthma Management [Feature]

A clear goal, staff buy-in and simple tools – such as an asthma flow sheet – can help your practice follow asthma guidelines more consistently.

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Oct 2004 Issue
Asthma Days: An Approach to Planned Asthma Care for Family Physicians [Feature]

Find out how one practice has improved care and outcomes for its asthma patients and increased practice revenue at the same time.

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Oct 2004 Issue
High-Energy, High-Return Practice [Editor's Page]

Argues that, even given all the barriers, practice improvement effort can pay off in enough ways that it is worth the effort.

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May 2001 Issue
Putting Clinical Guidelines Into Practice [Improving Patient Care]

The article follows a family practice through its quality improvement project to increase physician use of clinical guidelines for asthma.

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